"User Experience"

Interactive design is not just a passive experience, but must be one that draws in and engages your audience - repurposing complex information and ideas into intuitive layouts and mechanisms that excites audiences. Incorporating best practices and techniques in immersive graphic design, motion design, navigation, and user experience, this master class focuses on helping you build magnetic experiences audiences tell their friends about, and go viral.

Created for Digital and Content Marketers: Discover how your digital properties can boost brand value and the bottom line. Get examples on how organisations use web experience management to stand out, meet their customer acquisition and loyalty goals.

Is your content more valuable and relevant than your competitors? Do you find yourself competing on price wars online? Instead of joining this rat race, differentiate through a great mobile experience that no one can match. Launching an app successfully involves more than great design and coding. By providing a sticky mobile app that offers a phenomenal user experience, you could earn a spot on the home screen and become part of your audience's daily routine.

In this STC Summit interview, Andrea Ames covers how we need to overcome some of the old ways of thinking. Especially in the areas of information architecture. Need to design our information for a more "context-less" experience. Customer contribution diminishes our control over content.

Come learn best practices and tools for gauging performance and optimizing your PhoneGap apps. Because PhoneGap runs on a variety of devices, it's important to test and optimize your content to ensure a quality user experience.This session will teach you how to:• Do a performance test on PhoneGap user interfaces• Identify bottlenecks in your application• Address common performance issues

Join Denise Jacobs, author, speaker, web design consultant, and creativity evangelist, to explore the growing importance of storytelling in web design; how to communicate the idea of story through all aspects of a website, from content to design to user experience; and how to apply key components of great storytelling in literature to the web.Jacobs will explain how to:• Reverse engineer a project to come up with the story that the website or app needs to tell• Recognize and leverage the elements of story and their visual equivalents• Use literary storytelling elements and devices to create a compelling story• Create content coherence, illuminate the narrative, and leverage three types of user experience stories

Learn how Adobe Primetime Media Player provides the foundation classes and services to deliver premium video to Flash, iOS, and Android enabled screens, satisfying the needs of audiences today who view content on many devices and expect high-quality video, delivered immediately, within a unique user experience.Join community leader David Hassoun, founder of RealEyes, as he walks through video player development techniques that:• Monetize with seamless ad insertion• Implement rich video analytics• Optimize content for devices on mobile networks• Protect HD content with Adobe Access

Many of us have been frustrated by how "slippery" the positioning of anchored frames can be in Word. FrameMaker 11 provides considerably more control. This video starts out with a bang, showing how you can easily generate a table of parts, views or animations (with auto-hypertext links) to a 3D graphics. The published PDF output provides an attractive, guided user experience. Discover how FrameMaker 11's new Object Styles allow you to name, then globally update the appearance or positioning of both anchored frames and graphic objects. Hotspots also allow you to create a link between a zone of a graphic and related text.

We're taking a completely fresh look at how marketers can share and understand data about their businesses and campaigns, and better collaborate with creative professionals. We have been pursuing this under the name "Project Tartan", and it will be a whole new user experience for Adobe Marketing Cloud. We've designed it mobile-first, hosted in the cloud, and with social throughout -- this is a great example of the new generation of software coming from teams at Adobe.

Men's Health on the iPhone embraces the smartphone user experience and tailors its content to the small screen. Audio overlays allow readers to sit back and listen to a story with their headphones. Health enthusiasts can carry workout routines in their pockets. Content is well organized and easy to navigate, enjoyable for any loyal or new reader of Men's Health.

Chris Converse shows you how to dynamically alter the design and layout of a web page in order to deliver an optimal user experience from a single set of HTML and CSS markup. Read the article to learn more.

Chris Converse shows you how to use the provided Dreamweaver jQuery marquee template to create a compelling user experience across devices, while maintaining a shared set of HTML and CSS markup. Read the article to learn more.

In this lesson, Adobe Community Professional Tom Green shows how to optimize graphical elements for more efficient rendering with Adobe Flash player. See how you can create a more responsive user experience.

Interactive design is not just a passive experience, but must be one that draws in and engages your audience - repurposing complex information and ideas into intuitive layouts and mechanisms that excites audiences. Incorporating best practices and techniques in immersive graphic design, motion design, navigation, and user experience, this master class focuses on helping you build magnetic experiences audiences tell their friends about, and go viral.

Customer Experience Management allows a new way of thinking about delivering digital experiences in the enterprise; reframing the problem not just as a technology challenge, but as a design opportunity. Join Steven Webster, Senior Director in Adobe’s Technology and Innovation group as he invites a panel of Adobe’s user-experience leaders and innovative customers, to share their work, best-practices and learnings in designing solutions for today’s digital enterprise.

Join us as we explore the best solutions for delivering highly expressive and usable experiences, both in the browser and as apps. We'll look at a variety of technologies and products, highlighting current opportunities, and perring into the not-so-distant future.

Explore the issues of moving an established RIA experience from desktop to mobile. Join Joseph Labrecque from the University of Denver as he discusses transitioning the viewing experience for a campus resource from desktop to mobile. This session will examine how to take advantage of new workflow considerations across Adobe toolsets and determine what existing functionality is suitable for mobile applications, investigate device restrictions that can impact the general user experience, and describe how to make users aware of a new mobile application and what to expect.

Emmy Huang, Group Product Manager, Adobe Gaming Solutions, demonstrates how Adobe is driving a new generation of gaming and other immersive experiences on the Web. Danny Winokur provides a wrap-up to the Day 2 keynote.

Find out how to turn merely adequate experiences on the web into more meaningful ones with an intelligent interface designed using Adobe Fireworks. People often complete tasks despite the fact that many interfaces seem intent on thwarting us; understanding how people perceive, think, learn, and remember can help us make better design decisions. In this session we will identify common UX problems, discuss how people actually think, and show how to modify the design with Fireworks to craft a better user experience.

Join Adobe’s Director of Experience Design, Ty Lettau, as he walks you through key user experience considerations and discusses the real challenges behind cloud computing for consumers and creators alike. While the promise of cloud computing offers a new world of universal access and convenience, enabling users to move fluidly from the desktop to the web to any number of mobile devices requires a complex choreography of information, application, and social design patterns. We'll explore solutions to this new problem.

Accessibility laws for digital content are changing rapidly. Just as businesses are required by law to install and maintain accessible facilities, soon the requirement for accessible digital content will also be law. As the ubiquitous PDF file format becomes an accepted primary format for digital content, making PDFs (especially PDF forms) accessible to users of assistive technology becomes that much more important. This session demonstrates how to apply the guidelines of WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 to your PDF forms to improve accessibility and user experience. These best practices can also be applied to Flash and HTML5 forms as well.

In this final lesson, David wraps things up by teaching you how to effectively design interactions for forms and dialogs including ways to smoothly guide users through a good user experience using the same essential principals discussed in this series.

Learn about options for preference settings in an Adobe Connect session--from setting the background, to establishing the best user experience by optimizing room bandwidth, to various settings for the different pods in a layout.

Hear from Chuck Freedman (@chuckstar | www.chuckstar.com/blog), Adobe Flash Platform expert and chief channel evangelist at litl, as he discusses how Flash Player compatible content plays on many cool, in-home devices from Sony, Nintendo, litl, and more. He'll explore why creators should take special note of different form factors, simplified user experiences, and the new distribution channels that make this an exciting opportunity. We'll consider the full range of experiences, from open, multiplayer games and HD video in the living room to interactive cooking in the kitchen to DIY guides in the garage, and even story time.

Join Adobe experience designers Bruce Bell and Justin Van Slembrouck as they describe the process of working with WIRED magazine to design a new user experience for digital magazines. Learn how content informed the interface decisions, how WIRED is making use of the new possibilities for interactivity, and how Adobe's Digital Publishing Platform makes it all possible.

Learn how to extend the value of your Flash technology–based applications with measurement and optimization. This session will demonstrate and provide strategies for adding measurement, testing, and targeting for optimized user experiences within your apps. Products to be used in this presentation include Adobe SiteCatalyst, Test&Target, Flash Professional, and Scene7.

Join Enrique Duvos, Adobe Flash Platform evangelist, as he introduces you to creative layout techniques leveraging the new Flex 4 SDK component model and layout architecture. You'll learn how to develop sophisticated layouts from both a technical and user experience point of view. Topics will include assignable layouts, transformations, 3D, visual orchestration, and more.

Ben Forta, Adobe's Director of Evangelism interviews Paul Gubbay, VP Design and Web Engineering at Adobe and John Resig, father and lead developer of the JQuery JavaScript library as they discuss Adobe and its relationship to HTML5, and Adobe's work supporting JQuery.

User expectations and experiences are evolving rapidly, and Adobe has long taken the lead in creating the tools and services to design for the future. Join us to be inspired (and, yes, entertained) as we show you the future of building interactive and engaging experiences in ways you've yet to imagine.

A crack team including an experience researcher (Duane Nickull), a designer (Paul Trani), and a developer (Ming-En Cho) work to improve both desktop and mobile applications for Adobe’s Customer Service representatives. Lee Brimelow is the host.

Four contestants compete to create the best shopping application, using the mystery ingredient: Flex. One team (Deepa Subramaniam & Narciso Jaramillo) builds a mobile application and the other team (Doug Winnie & Adam Cath) builds a browser-based application. Serge Jespers is the host.

Go beyond the basics with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 in this fast-paced session. You'll learn how to create complex interactive content such as image galleries, media players, accordion panels, 3D effects, and more. Find out how to optimize your project's size and loading speed to improve the user experience, and boost your productivity with Flash Catalyst tips and tricks. As a bonus, you’ll also get an inside take on the vision for the future of Flash Catalyst.

Learn how to tune your applications to provide an optimal user experience within the performance limitations of a device's hardware and software. We'll share tips and tricks for how to build Android applications powered by Adobe AIR that respond quickly. Discover best practices for how to troubleshoot performance problems such as rendering bottlenecks and occasionally connected networks.

Join Juan Sanchez, RJ Owen and Leonard Souza from EffectiveUI as they walk through methods used to design and architect multiscreen experiences with Spark and Flex 4. They will demonstrate an application built for the desktop, the web, and handheld devices and show off the techniques used to build them. They'll focus on Spark skinning, effects and layout, interaction with the file system using Adobe AIR, and coordinating data using LiveCycle Data Services. Never has there been a more exciting time for building user experiences — or a more powerful toolset to build them with.

Learn how to take your skills in visual design for print and the web into the exciting and rapidly growing field of designing for user experiences. Get an understanding of this multidisciplinary field and see how interaction designers provide solutions to complex design challenges and define new and evolving interactive products and services.

Hear top design professionals explain how to unlock new value hidden in complex enterprise systems through the expression of user-centric goals in design patterns. You'll learn how Adobe is converging solutions, platforms, and tools to help you better serve your customers or constituents by delivering great experiences. This session equips you with business cases as examples of current cultural shifts, as we share our user experience vision, some technology sneak peeks, and a vision for the future of enterprise applications.

Explore the role of prototyping in designing and developing compelling mobile applications. We'll examine the forms that prototypes can take (from paper prototypes to rich, interactive simulations), their advantages and costs, and how Adobe tools can be used to create them. Then we'll walk through creating a user interface for a mobile application using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, and Flash Builder. This presentation also covers best practices for UX, as well as developer-focused tips and tricks.

Learn how to design for an effective user experience, which should be the underlying goal for any application. See how to use Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 along with Adobe Illustrator CS5, Photoshop CS5, Fireworks CS5, and InDesign CS5 as user experience design tools. This session covers creating personas, site maps, storyboards, and wireframes and how these elements are combined to create a finished application. To extend your knowledge from this session, attend the "Hands-on: Using Flash Catalyst CS5 to Design Rich User Experiences" lab.

Hear how focusing on user experience can improve the value of the enterprise applications you deliver. Also learn about architectural changes in the next release of Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite as well as new features in servers, client runtimes, and tools that will allow you to build, deploy, and measure excellent customer experiences.

Learn how to get the most out of the new optimized user interface in Adobe Captivate 5, and how to get up and running quickly using the new panels, workspaces, multiple projects opened at the same time, etc.

Learn how to easily remove unwanted areas from an image using the latest content-aware fill functionality in Photoshop CS5. Find out how to natively import .PSD files in FrameMaker to include rich imagery in technical documentation.

Learn how to leverage existing 3D models in your technical documentation. See how to take advantage of the powerful 3D Reviewer in Acrobat 9 Pro Extended to view, edit, and insert interactive 3D models into PDF files created in FrameMaker.

David Kelley talks about that middle ground where some of the best creative agencies live. Using tools like Adobe Illustrator to build better User eXperiences for Silverlight and WPF, from marketing Brand Jordan to retail.

This popular mobile device-based video game provides an enhanced user experience, with greater interactivity and access through a variety of platforms. The game was created with Adobe Device Central CS4, Dreamweaver CS3, Flash CS4 Professional, Flash Lite, and Photoshop CS3 Extended.

Flex makes it easy to create animated transitions, helping the user understand what is happening in the UI. Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase shows how transitions and easing behavior improve the user experience.

Join Franz von Holzhausen and members of the Roundarch team for an interactive discussion about the many challenges related to automobile design, from form factor and industrial design to onscreen user experiences.

Join Roundarch's Adam Flater and Dave Meeker, along with Brian Finn and Evan Small from Tesla Motors, for a lively discussion on the process of developing the technology that powers the user experience (software and hardware) in the Tesla Model S.

Learn about new trends in enterprise application development, with a focus on user-centric computing, and how the next generation of Adobe technology will allow you to build leading-edge applications that meet those trends.

A new and improved version of Flash Player is on its way! Discover how you can deliver optimized user experiences that leverage the same code, tools, and skills that reach millions of new users across multiple devices with the next version of Flash Player

Return to the office with a solid understanding of:
* How to get across the discipline and language barriers of your peers;
* How to use Experience Design and Rapid Prototyping to develop creative and useable ideas; and more!

Join George Neill and Jerome Doran of the the Adobe Consulting User Experience team as show us that when engaging with applications, users essentially want to complete their tasks with a minimum of difficulty and friction.

Join Erwan Paccard as he shows us how the rich data visualizations made possible with ILOG Elixir, including advanced charts, graphs, and maps, can offer new data insight, accelerate and improve business decisions, and reduce development time.

Duane interviews Derek Zarbrook who demonstrates how Adobe AIR has been used to enhance a user's experience in content management, and how Dreamweaver extensions can improve the workflow for Designers.